What "Leto's Learned Lately" Thread

[Copper]

There is an old axiom in Combat Mission that clearly states: "lose your armour and you lose the game".

So how do Soviet and Yank players ever win against a superior German kit of armour picks?

I've learned that notwithstanding any side that you play, axis or allied, the key to winning is bifurcated between the above axiom, and a secondary little rule of thumb that I like to call "evasion".

So Leto, you big "think your so smart" arsehole of a veteran... get to the point. Not that I'll listen to you because I think your a pretentious bag of wind... (but I'll read on anyways... ahem).

The points are these:

1) never reveal your armour, or move it into an open area where it cannot retreat from unrevealed armour until you know the battlefield.

2) how do you get to know the battlefield? Advance your infantry... slowly.


Once your infantry make contact, keep them hidden as well as you can... don't worry about getting to the flags first. If the enemy has a superior tank force (if German, then he will have less than you as Allied), use numbers, speed and "evade" the enemy armour.

What you want is to begin using those 76 HE shells in your T-34 or M4 and begin pounding on his infantry. If the German tanks advance, retreat and find another avenue to pound those infantrymen into dust. It's almost like a chess match at times, having to think a few turns ahead and not let the enemy tanks catch you flatfooted in one turn where they can advance, fire upon and perhaps destroy your own armour.

To sum it all up: Infantry is the King of the battlefield. Never forget this. If your enemy wishes to come get your armour, it has to go through or near that line of your own infantry, and the accompanying AT guns (that you should have in abundance) and infantry AT weapons (that do not care how thick the armour of a tank is, especially when you're tossing a grenade bundle into the copula of a Panzer). The closer to your skirimish line he gets, the more vulnerable his tanks are... and the greater amounts of your units you can use to converge on and destroy his armour.

While your enemy tries his best to nail your tanks, you evade, destroy his infantry where you can, and then let your infantry do the final work.

It may not be a slam dunk win, maybe not even a win, perhaps just a draw... but I guarantee you... it's hard to lose when you play tactically smart (luck does turn the day sometimes though).

Here ends the lesson.

For those of you who are learning the game, good luck and I hope this helps... for those of you who are veterans (even the ones I'm playing), you already know this... it's just sticking to it that is hard.... and for those of you who believe that I am nothing but a pretentious self-aggrandizing board yawp and think that I post these threads because of ego related problems... go piss up a rope. You know who you are.

: )


Cheers!


Leto